Haid Award - $30000

Introducing the Haid Award, sponsored by Globus; a new opportunity made available in 2012 intended for primary neurosurgical investigators interested in clinical research in the field of adult spinal deformity. This research award is intended to provide up to $30,000 in research funding for clinically relevant research related to adult degenerative spinal deformity, and to provide a means of peer review for clinical research projects to help improve the quality of the proposal and therefore, enhance competitiveness for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding. The award is also meant to create an annual funding mechanism to establish the AANS/CNS Spine Section as a known source for quality clinical research aimed at answering questions pertaining to the treatment of disorders of the spine and peripheral nerves.

Previous Recipients

Year	Name	Description	Location
2012	Justin S. Smith, MD, PhD, FAANS	Justin S. Smith, MD, PhD, FAANS, received his medical degree from Mayo Medical School and PhD in Molecular Neuroscience from Mayo Graduate School, both in Rochester, Minnesota. He completed a general surgery internship and neurological surgery residency at the University of California at San Francisco, where he served as Chief Resident in Neurological Surgery. Dr. Smith advanced his spine training in two fellowship programs. The first was an adult and pediatric deformity spine fellowship at the University of Virginia jointly sponsored by the Departments of Neurosurgery and Orthopaedic Surgery. Under the tutelage of Richard G. Fessler, MD, he completed a minimally invasive spine fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. He is currently co-director of the UVA Spine Center, and is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia. Within the Department of Neurological Surgery, Dr. Smith serves in several leadership roles including Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, co-director of Spine Division and co-director of Spine Fellowship. As the first Haid award recipient, Dr. Smith plans to perform a multi-center study evaluating surgical treatments for cervical deformity.	Co-director of the UVA Spine Center, and is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia